This award recognises network and/or device testing products that are exceptional in their area. Entrants are required to describe their testing products and state why their product is different to others in the market and also what the impact has been to measure true LTE performance in real life conditions.
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This award recognises the contribution made to LTE standardisation. Entrants are required to state the contribution made to the development of standards and specifications and their contribution to helping the industry to standardise LTE technology.
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This award recognises the progress by operators in preparing to the deployment of LTE. Entrants will need to state the progress being made in launching LTE, in which markets will LTE be deployed, how they have developed the ecosystem to get it in place, what services are being developed alongside the network rollout, what are the strategies to educate customers and attract them to LTE and how will LTE be branded.
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This award recognises the activities by vendors in making the case for a commercial rollout of LTE, including the launching of trials, commitment and investment into LTE development over other technologies and customer contracts awarded as a result. Entrants are required to explain the activities undertaken and the impact that this has had on making LTE a commercial reality.
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This award recognises the achievements in producing enabling technologies for LTE. Entrants are required to describe the enabling technology and how it contributes to making LTE more attractive to an operator to deploy, explain how it contributes to improving the network QoS and/or QoE for the user, how has this been measured and how the product/technology is different to anything else on the market and the commercial success of the technology so far.
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This award recognises the contribution towards the research and development of LTE. Entrants are required to describe the investment made into R&D for LTE, opening of labs, the results from research, number of patents that have been filed and describe how the R&D activities have had a positive impact on making LTE commercially successful.
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This award recognises the achievement to make LTE more environmentally friendly.
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This award is for an individual who has made a significant contribution to the development of LTE. Entrants are required to explain the work that has been done and the impact that this has had on the development of LTE and making it a commercial reality.
The winner of Category 8 will be announced on the night!
